REVOLT LIKELY

Wairarapa Times-Age, 13 September 1941, Page 5

REVOLT LIKELY

HIGH FEELING IN NORWAY NEED FOR CAUTION. GROWING UNREST IN NORTHERN FRANCE. (Bv Telegraph—Press Association —Copyright) LONDON, September! 12. ■•Revolt will break out," said a young Norwegian who has just arrived aftei escaping from Norway. He added. “The Germans gd in terror and seldom walk alone. Their own brutality is stirring up more and more bitterness against them. They are ‘shanghaiing’ young men for ships because Germans refuse to work on them. Norwegians are gleeful about the British raids. They know 1 Britain will aid them when the day for revolution arrives.”

It is reported from Stockholm that the Germans have increased their military forces in Oslo, and that the situation is critical in Moss. Fredrikstad and Sarpsborg. A broadcast from London told Norwegians to act cautiously. “The signal for the final battle will be clear when the time comes,” it said. New’ unrest has broken out in northern France, where strikes have occurred in the Lille, Valenciennes and Charleroi mines and the Liege arms works. Food riots have occurred in Liege.

Two Communists were sentenced to death at Clermont Ferrand for attempted assault on a police prefect. The inhabitants of Enschede were fined 50,000 guilders for sabotage. New’ evidence pours in of the success of Bosnian, Croatian, Serbian and Montenegrin rebellions. The strength of the resistance in Alsace-Lorraine to the German regime is clearly revealed in a speech explaining new measures of repression by the Gauleiter, Herr Burcil. “The way has been open for everyone to march with us,” he says in a statement reproduced in the “Metzer Zeitung am Abend.” “But how have the people answered? Not only have they remained aloof from the German national community; they have actively insulted its members. These people have taken advantage of my good intentions to sabotage them. “As a result,” he says, “I shall be far less considerate.” Enmity to the Reich is to be punished not by expulsion to France but by transportation to Germany itself.